Addiction Pictures

Addiction Pictures

Addiction Pictures

Addiction Pictures

Addiction Pictures

Addiction Pictures

Addiction Pictures

Addiction Pictures

Addiction Pictures

Addiction Pictures

“Methadone can ease an addict’s return to earth but it can’t remove the problems that led to his addiction. At Palo Alto, encounter techniques are being used to help the patients.”

"Methadone can ease an addict's return to earth but it can't remove the problems that led to his addiction. At Palo Alto, encounter techniques are being used to help the patients."

CATRINA GENOVESE FOR TIME; FOOD: ZABEL MASHEJIAN

SAY NO TO PASTA:
The Hellers, in seven diet books, try to break people's
addiction to carbohydrates. They mostly lay off too

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The entrance to Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services in Hattiesburg, Miss., where Tiger Woods is allegedly receiving treatment for sex addiction

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reSTART Internet Addiction Recovery Program client Ben Alexander listening to music in his room at the program's facility in Fall City, Wash. reSTART is the residential treatment program of its kind in the United States.

Patients at a Chinese Internet-addiction center submit to strict military routine.

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BUFFALO, NY - OCTOBER 23: Mentor and veteran Archie Amos waits in court to be assigned to a vet needing help, on October 23, 2012 in Buffalo, New York. The Buffalo Veterans Treatment Court started in January 2008 as a hybrid drug and mental health treatment court to provide judicially monitored treatment to war veterans in the criminal justice system. Vets appearing here struggle with substance addiction or serious mental health disease often accompanied by PTSD. The court provides lots of support to vets to keep them out of trouble. (Photo by Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images)

Jackie Robinson holds his son, Jackie Jr., as he sits with his wife Rachel on the front steps of their home in 1949. Jackie Jr. struggled with drug addiction as a young man and was killed, at just 24 years old, in a car accident in 1971.

Jackie Robinson holds his son, Jackie Jr., as he sits with his wife Rachel on the front steps of their home in 1949. Jackie Jr. struggled with drug addiction as a young man and was killed, at just 24 years old, in a car accident in 1971.

An Anatomy of Addiction by Howard Markel

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A crowd of people march to raise awareness about the abuse of Oxycontin in Abingdon, Va., where three current and former executives of the drug's maker were to be sentenced for misleading the public about its risk of addiction.